extended

  • (s) relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
    • a drawn-out argument
    • an extended discussion
    • a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law
    • a prolonged and bitter struggle
    • protracted negotiations
    drawn-out, lengthy, prolonged, protracted,
  • (a) fully extended or stretched forth
    • an extended telescope
    • his extended legs reached almost across the small room
    • refused to accept the extended hand
  • (s) drawn out or made longer spatially
    • Picasso's elongated Don Quixote
    • lengthened skirts are fashionable this year
    • the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes
    • a prolonged black line across the page
    elongated, lengthened, prolonged,
  • (s) beyond the literal or primary sense
    • "hot off the press" shows an extended sense of "hot"
  • (s) large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
    • an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England
    • extended farm lands
    • surgeons with extended experience
    • they suffered extensive damage
    extensive,

Synonyms

drawn-out lengthy prolonged protracted elongated lengthened extensive

Antonyms

unextended

Words of close approximity

extended care facility extended family extended order extended time scale